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The Quebec Community Groups Network is a non-profit uniting English-speaking Quebecers and English-language community groups. #QCanglos #OuiOurQuebec

Montreal (Quebec), Canada
Joined August 2009
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3 years
Un récent sondage réalisé par @angusreidorg indique qu'environ 60 % des Québécois estiment que le gouvernement de la Coalition Avenir Québec fait un « mauvais travail » en matière de soins de santé. #polpq
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Did Legault suggest non-'caquistes' are lesser Quebecers? @AvecAndreFortin : For the premier to say that one Quebecer is lesser than another because they don’t have his political affiliation is beyond the bounds of what’s acceptable. He needs to apologize.”
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Quebec debate on the decline of the French language that focusses on Mother Tongue is misleading, says @MarcMillerVM . It excludes English-speaking and other Quebecers, like him, who speak the language. The fact is that 94% of Quebecers can speak French.
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Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ
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Le Bloc Québécois continue l’abrutissement du débat linguistique. Je refuse cette paresse intellectuelle. Je suis Québécois et fier de l’être!
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English-speaking Quebecers are also shell shocked by this decision. The QCGN looked to Ontario as a model for how the minority language community was treated with a French Services Act, a Commissioner. The Ford Government also downgraded the Office of Francophone Affairs. #frcan
@fcfacanada
FCFA du Canada
5 years
Sous le choc après les annonces du gouvernement ontarien cet après-midi. Aux Franco-Ontariens et Franco-Ontariennes, à @MonAssemblee , nous sommes avec vous. Toute la #frcan est avec vous. #onfr #Acadie
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“McGill is a jewel in Quebec’s crown — one of the world’s leading universities,” says @EvaLudvigQCGN . “Instead of celebrating it and urging it on to greater success, the Legault government wants to punish it.” #qcpoli
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2 years
Just six months to learn French as an immigrant to Quebec is not enough time, says Garine Papazian-Zohrabian, professor at @UMontreal . Full-time lessons take at least 10 months, she adds: "If I gave you Armenian lessons, would you speak it in six months?"
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5 years
Quebec’s English-speaking official language minority community is proudly taking part. A hit to one community is a hit to all. Vive la résistance!!!! #onfr #qcanglo #RespectFranco #resistance
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CFAmériques
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Aujourd’hui, des milliers de francophones, francophiles et alliés affirmeront avec fierté leur volonté de pouvoir vivre en français. Nous sommes la francophonie des Amériques, nous sommes tous interpellés par #laR ésistance. #NousSommesNousSerons #RespectFranco #amfr #frcan #onfr
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Thousands of Montrealers march in opposition of #Bill96 Many protesters said while they are in favour of protecting the French language and culture in Quebec, Bill 96 would have disastrous consequences in education, language and healthcare sectors.
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« McGill est l’un des joyaux du Québec – l'une des meilleures universités au monde » dit @EvaLudvigQCGN . « Au lieu de la célébrer et de l'encourager à continuer à réussir, le gouvernement Legault veut la punir ». #polqc
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Avec plus de 33 000 signatures, la #p étition demandant à la @coalitionavenir d'annuler la hausse des frais de scolarité pour les étudiants hors province a été la plus signée de la province en 2023. #polqc #QCAnglos #ÉducationQC
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McGill won’t rule out moving some operations to another province Principal Deep Saini: McGill would “look at all options” if Quebec moves ahead with a tuition plan expected to devastate the university’s finances. via @mtlgazette
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Louis Bernard in @LeDevoir : "Our situation as a minority in North America should make us understand the fear that our English minority feels of losing, within a francophone majority, the rights that have historically been theirs."
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4 years
Don Macpherson: In providing so much COVID-19 information in the language of its Canadian official-language minority, Quebec is setting an example for other provinces and territories. An anglo guide to Quebec government COVID-19 information
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2 years
Hey hey Ho ho 96 has got to go. Hundreds rallye against passage of #Bill96
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3 years
Dear Premier @francoislegault : English-speaking Quebecers are not some folkloric ‘historic’ group. We are full-fledged Quebecers, who are committed to building an inclusive Quebec where French is the common language. #QCAnglos #qcpoli #Bill96
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Quebec's English school board reform is unconstitutional, court rules Bill 40 unreasonably limits the protected rights of the anglophone minority to manage its education system, according to a Quebec Superior Court decision.
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"The English-speaking community in Quebec is in need of protection ... the survival and vitality of our community are far from certain,” Janice Naymark tells @SenateCA . #BillC13 #cdnpoli #QCAnglos
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“I wouldn’t be surprised if the immigrants are going to stop coming into Quebec and go directly to Ontario or Western Canada,” says Harry Schick, owner of Swiss Vienna Pastry shop: “Who needs this aggravation?” #Bill96 #qcpoli #assnat
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« Si vous nous parlez en français, nous vous parlons en français, si vous nous parlez en anglais, nous vous parlons en anglais », déclare le propriétaire de la boulangerie à la suite d'une plainte anonyme à l' @OQLF .
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« Je ne serais pas surpris que les immigrants cessent de venir au Québec et aillent directement en Ontario ou dans l'Ouest canadien », déclare Harry Schick, propriétaire de la pâtisserie Swiss Vienna : « Qui a besoin de cette aggravation ? » #Loi96 #polqc
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7 years
L'élection de @jendrouin à l'exécutif du PQ prouve que le vote anglo est possible, croit @JFLisee | @Global_Montreal
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2 years
Quebec Francophones should be just as alarmed as Anglophones about the fact that #Bill96 overrides both the Quebec and Canadian charters, writes @camrclark . #qcpoli
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For immigrants to learn French in only six months under #Bill96 is "not only a serious lack of realism, but also a lack of respect for the people we welcome,” writes author Pierre Hurteau. #qcpoli
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2 years
Federal Justice Minister @DavidLametti is seeking to put an end to the preventive use of the notwithstanding clause, a constitutional tool which the Quebec government had used to pass #Bill96 and #Bill21 . #cdnpoli
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2 years
Les commentaires faits par @francoislegault la semaine dernière sur l'idée que toutes les cultures ne sont pas au même niveau reprennent quelque chose qui est devenu courant au Québec : « la notion que le multiculturalisme est une menace ». @ThomasMulcair
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If a government were trying to devise a plan to starve Quebec’s English-language universities out of existence, it would look a lot like this – @EvaLudvigQCGN #qcpoli #QCAnglos
@mtlgazette
Montreal Gazette
5 months
In a letter to English universities, the province said it's increasing tuition for their out-of-province students to $12,000 and requiring 80% of students from outside Quebec to reach an intermediate level of French by the time they graduate #polQC
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3 years
The Quebec Community Groups Network deeply regrets that proposed changes to the Charter of the French Language override fundamental human rights and will erode the vitality of our English-speaking minority community.
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9 months
The Tribunal finds the infringement of the rights of the English-speaking minority is not justified and said the presence of unelected staff members on council, and budgetary measures sent directly from education ministry - by-passing school boards - are unconstitutional.
@CTVMontreal
CTV Montreal
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Superior Court strikes down parts of Quebec's Bill 40
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4 years
Here we go again: CAQ government votes for motion to expand Bill 101
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5 years
Join the resistance. A small but vocal delegation from the Quebec Community Groups Network is heading to Ottawa to join the demonstration at the Human Rights Monument (220 Elgin St.). We encourage you to join us. #qcanglo #RespectFranco #r ésistance #onfr
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ONFR TFO
5 years
De Vancouver à Saint-Jean de Terre-Neuve, le soutien aux Franco-Ontariens. Les exemples en Alberta, au Manitoba et à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard. #onfr #frcan
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Most of the numbers that Premier @francoislegault uses are numbers that focus, for the most part, on the private sphere. It's true that the number of Quebecers with French as their mother tongue is in decline. But in reality, more and more people are using French.
@CTVMontreal
CTV Montreal
6 months
Is French really declining in Quebec? It depends how you look at it, experts say. Click on the image below to read more ↓
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On a promis aux #QCAnglos que la #Loi96 n'aurait aucun impact sur leur accès aux services de santé en anglais. Une femme de l'ouest de l'île a découvert à ses dépens que cette promesse ne s'appliquait pas à la @RAMQuebec . #polqc
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La #Loi96 est une loi « terrible, épouvantable et répressive », déclare @JuliusGrey . « Nonobstant le rôle officiel de protection du français, le but de cette loi est simplement de supprimer l'anglais ». #polqc #QCAnglos
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“This myopic and discriminatory tuition scheme will perpetuate a new brain drain and hobble English universities, which are being unjustly singled out,” writes @AllisonHanes #qcpoli #EducationQC #QCAnglos
@mtlgazette
Montreal Gazette
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Allison Hanes: Tuition hike will harm more than Quebec's English universities
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3 years
The QCGN is appalled to learn that BellMedia is gutting its newsrooms. Our minority English-language community cannot afford to lose strong media voices as it heads into a period of uncertainty over language.
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Steve Faguy
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Update: Hearing from two sources at Bell Media that CJAD's newsroom has basically been eliminated and news will instead come from CTV Montreal.
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QCGN calls upon Premier @jkenney to collaborate with the Association canadienne française de l'Alberta @ACFAAB and Campus Saint-Jean to find a timely solution to preserve Campus Saint-Jean, a unique French-language post-secondary institution. #sauvonssaintjean #savesaintjean
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+268,000 French-speaking Albertans, a ↗️ population. @UAlberta_CSJ provides Francophone and French immersion students the opportunity to pursue their postsecondary studies in French. #SauvonsSaintJean #SaveSaintJean #frab #frcan #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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10 months
Jeffery Vacante via @globeandmail : Bill 96 excludes about half of the more than one million Quebeckers who consider themselves to be English-speaking residents of the province from receiving government services in English.
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5 years
Les Québécois d'expression anglaise sont également sous le choc. Le QCGN considérait l'Ontario comme un modèle de traitement de leur communauté de langue minoritaire avec une loi sur les services en français, un commissaire et l'Office des affaires francophones. #frcan
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« Personne ne conteste l'impératif d'assurer la vitalité de la langue française. Mais nous avons le droit d'être en désaccord sur le 'comment' atteindre cet objectif contenu dans la #Loi96 sans être traités de déloyaux envers le Québec ». #polqc #QCAnglos
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Ce n'est pas l'immigration, mais la rhétorique qui divise les Québécois en groupes «nous autres» et «eux autres» qui tue le Québec, écrit @marieevedoyon . #polqc
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“It’s scary that the @coalitionavenir seems to think it’s cheaper and more politically advantageous to throw #QCAnglos under the bus,” writes @ToulasTake . #qcpoli
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If we put as much energy into transmitting the love of French as we did into slapping down the English-speaking community, Quebec would feel prouder of this unique culture of which every citizen remains the custodian for the rest of the world.
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3 years
Toula Drimonis @ToulasTake : François Legault doesn’t get to decide who’s a real Quebecer via @Crunchify
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A historian, a demographer and a statistician will be brought in as expert witnesses in the lawsuit against #Bill96 to prove that French is not declining in Quebec. #qcpoli
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2 years
Quebec's Superior Court has rebuked Justice Minister @SJB_CAQ who said he would not require bilingualism for judges. The court ruled the minister had no say on how magistrates set professional & linguistic requirements of provincial judges. #qcpoli
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QCGN DG @sylviamlaforge : "It is now clear this government has concluded that the most effective way to support French is to curtail English and English-language institutions to the greatest extent possible.”
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“Quebec’s new law to strengthen French can expose people to exploitation at the most sensitive times in their lives,” writes @AllisonHanes . #Bill96 #qcpoli #QCAnglos
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“The notwithstanding clause is not inherently authoritarian,” writes @CharestDionne . “However, it becomes authoritarian when used without justification in the name of the majority and those who oppose it are labelled as anti-Quebec" #qcpoli #Bill96 #Bill21
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2 years
Quebec's English-speaking community is out in full force for Canada's #officiallanguages summit! #workingtogetherforamorevitalcommunity
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“Premier Legault has said ‘I haven’t heard any real opposition,’ well, we’re hoping our community and all Quebecers who are profoundly concerned will raise their voices on May 14,” says @marleneqcgn . #qcpoli #qcanglos #bill96
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Vive la résistance. Une délégation du Quebec Community Groups Network se rendra à Ottawa pour participer à la manifestation au Monument des droits humains (220 rue Elgin). Nous vous encourageons à nous rejoindre. #qcanglo #RespectFranco # résistance #onfr .
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ONFR TFO
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De Vancouver à Saint-Jean de Terre-Neuve, le soutien aux Franco-Ontariens. Les exemples en Alberta, au Manitoba et à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard. #onfr #frcan
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“Mounting legal challenges are sending a message about #Bill96 's threat to minority rights — and Ottawa can no longer remain silent,” writes @RobertLibman @mtlgazette #qcpoli #assnat #QCAnglos
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The Qc Gov is looking to build the Public Service of tomorrow by creating an employee base that reflects the diversity of this province. Visit & apply before 06/19! Let the @QCGN know you’re applying & get help with the process, info @qcgn .ca. #qcpoli
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“It is perfectly possible to support the protection of French in Quebec, which I have always done, and at the same time protect the linguistic rights of the English-speaking minority,” reads an open letter by @MarcGarneau . #QCAnglos #BillC13
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“That’s why I went to committee today, I wanted to explain to the people …how what they’re proposing would really harm more than a million people in Quebec.” - @AHousefather . #cdnpoli #LANG #BillC13
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2 years
Bill 96: Justice Corriveau affirms that “the plaintiffs raise a serious question, namely a possible contravention of section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867, which provides in Quebec for access to the Courts in French and in English”.
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5 years
Impressive #resistance mouvement should send strong message to @fordnation government. Francophones and their allies will not tolerate a step backwards. #onfr #RespectFranco @QCGN #qcanglos are behind you
@ONfr_TFO
ONFR TFO
5 years
La plus importante manifestation de l’histoire de l’Ontario français #onfr #onpoli #frcan #r ésistons #LaR ésistance
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The @coalitionavenir is peddling “false” and “misleading information” without supporting documents in order to justify its tuition hike for out-of-province students attending English universities, says @marwahrizqy . #qcpoli #EducationQC
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3 years
Minister @melaniejoly : English-speaking Quebecers are among the most bilingual Canadians // La ministre @melaniejoly : Les Québécois anglophones sont parmi les Canadiens les plus bilingues
@ChantalCarey
Chantal Carey 🏳️‍🌈
3 years
Qui sont les plus bilingues au pays? Portrait par la ministre responsable des langues officielles @melaniejoly . Extrait de la table de ronde du 5 mai 2021 organisée par l'Association des boursiers et boursières Ricard @BoursesRicard .
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2 years
Allison Hanes: If no one stands up for minority rights, the @coalitionavenir government will continue to erode them.
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3 years
Good question, right? Help us send a message to Premier Legault on why you disagree with #Bill96 ! Send us your thoughts at info @QCGN .ca today. #Bill96MustGo #LanguageRightsAreHumanRights
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Quebec wants to give Santé Québec, the new agency being set up under Bill 15 to administer the health system, the power to revoke the right to offer such services for institutions in areas where the minority communities have shrunk below 50 per cent.
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1 year
French is only in decline in Quebec “in a narrowly proportional sense,” writes @x_hackett , “and even here you have to cherry-pick statistics and split hairs in reference to a short period between 2001 to 2016.” #qcpoli #Bill96
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2 years
Patients are far less likely to die or suffer severe complications when assisted by a doctor who speaks the same language. This study highlights the need for available multilingual services in hospitals.
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QCGN mourns loss of James Shea, educator and advocate for linguistic duality
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2 years
Les jeunes générations d'anglophones sont de plus en plus à l'aise en français, écrit le commentateur William Watson. Cependant, avec l'existence de la #Loi96 , il est clair que les francophones ne réalisent pas cette victoire. #polpq
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@QCGN extends its gratitude to MPs @PatriciaLattan3 , @MarcGarneau , and @AHousefather and all other MPs, who have been working to achieve improvements for Quebec’s English-speaking community in #BillC13 . #LANG #cdnpoli
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Human rights must have priority say speakers at anti #Bill96 rallye. Les droits humain doivent avoir priorité. #qcpoli #polqc
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“It is unfortunate, it should be possible to bring forward the concerns of the province's minority language community without this kind of vitriol,” write @AHousefather and @MarcGarneau . #cdnpoli #QCAnglos #BillC13
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1 year
On behalf of English-speaking Quebecers, we repeat our plea to Parliamentarians to remove all references to the Charter of the French Language #Bill101 from #BillC13 and to ensure all language rights created by Parliament are extended to both official languages, English & French.
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@QCGN disappointed that @LANG has allowed references to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language to remain in proposed new federal language legislation to amend Canada’s Official Languages Act. #BillC13 #QCAnglos
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Author @SaleemaNawaz compares @JustinTrudeau ’s inaction towards the use of the notwithstanding clause to a parent who lets their children determine their own rules. “I hope that somebody is willing to be the grown-up here.” #Bill96 #canpoli
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Education Minister Jean-François Roberge’s proposal to abolish #schoolboards indicates a failure to have read or understood existing law, Montreal lawyer Howard Greenfield writes. #polqc #schoolboardsmatter #QCanglos
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Communiqué de presse: Le QCGN dénonce les coupures dans les services en français en Ontario. #Francophonie #OfficialLanguages #frcan #onfr #onpoli
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Former Senator Joan Fraser to Senate committee: “The inclusion of references to the French language charter in C-13 tacitly accepts this pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause and I submit that should be of concern to all Canadians.” #canpoli
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2 years
Rights lawyer @JuliusGrey has filed a motion challenging several articles in #Bill96 that pertain to the legal profession and access to justice. via @mtlgazette
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2 years
When it comes to #Bill96 , it is clear that the @coalitionavenir does not have a comprehension of Quebec’s linguistic reality, writes @ToulasTake : “The CAQ continues to legislate for a Quebec that no longer exists.”
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5 years
By-passing democratically elected school boards is disrespectful not only of our English-language institutions but is an insult to Quebec's English-speaking community. CTV interview: Quebec Premier Francois Legault on Bill 21, schools, minority rights
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2 years
Community stakeholder groups including @QCGN @EPCA13 @qesba express concerns about Bill 96 and the vitality of Quebec's English-speaking community in a roundtable meeting with Official Language Minister @GinettePT Petitpas Taylor and MP @AHousefather
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#Bill96 is “attempted assimilation and cultural genocide,” on Quebec’s Indigenous peoples, says Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer: “It indicates to us that the government is claiming supremacy over us, like our laws, traditions and cultures don’t matter.”
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